Steam games not working after installing in HDD

lazyf3

I have been having trouble getting games to work on steam after downloading to my hard drives. I had the drives mounted to a home file. The games would install and the play button would be green, but when press it would load and exit. I try sudo chown -R user:user /Games but didn't do anything.

laky

lazyf3 Might be that you have something left in your games launch options that is not loading properly, try to remove all of the launch options from your specific game and try again. I had a similar problem, hope it helps.

Bhibb

lazyf3 I'm no expert, but maybe a couple settings inside Steam might be the culprit? So you said you have the drives mounted to a "home" file. Does this mean that these are external drives you are plugging in and mounting to your home directory? Or are these internal drives you're mounting? If they're external it could be that Steam isn't seeing the location because of where it's looking for your Steam Library. That's a setting in Steam to check.

Also, it's possible that your "appmanifest__#######.acf" files could be absent or providing incorrect information. Check your ".steam" file (for me it's located under /home/.steam but with your installation it might be different on a diff drive depending where you installed Steam) under /home/.steam/steam/steamapps and take a look at your "appmanifest_######.acf" files. These files dictate to Steam which applications are currently installed. You can open them up in your favorite text editor and make sure they're pointing to the right locations of your game files. Here's an example for CSGO:

"AppState" { "appid" "730" "Universe" "1" "name" "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" "StateFlags" "4" "installdir" "Counter-Strike Global Offensive" "LastUpdated" "1597075672" "UpdateResult" "0" "SizeOnDisk" "23386482553" "buildid" "5382072" "LastOwner" "76561197964255187" "BytesToDownload" "363766352" "BytesDownloaded" "363766352" "AutoUpdateBehavior" "0" "AllowOtherDownloadsWhileRunning" "0" "ScheduledAutoUpdate" "0" "InstalledDepots" { "731" { "manifest" "2363008487121340044" } "734" { "manifest" "1082586337195390762" } "735" { "manifest" "3867231304834558645" } } "MountedDepots" { "731" "2363008487121340044" "734" "1082586337195390762" "735" "3867231304834558645" } "UserConfig" { "language" "english" } }

I hope that helps.

lazyf3

Bhibb Internal drives I'm mounting. I think my steam is on my ssd since its under /home/.steam/steam/steamapps. I checked the appmanifest and i think it looks okay.

bluvisnu

I have the same problem here on a fresh solus install, I can install any game but none of them want to run the same games that worked on Manjaro a day ago, the play button is green I click on it, the game looks like it is going to run but it doesn't and the play button goes back to green like I didn't click on it. All is on my main hard drive without any other hard drive or partition.

Bhibb

My thoughts are that this could be a permissions issue per the OP, perhaps with the helpd of chmod for checking the file permissions. Otherwise, on fresh installations where the Steam install is pulling down games from the outset, I have no idea why it wouldn't made the changes required to make the games playable.

There is one thing that might help you, though, in a special tool called Steam Linux Integration. Check and see that you have this package installed and I recommend trying to toggle the Force 32-bit libraries option just to see if that helps.

When you sudo eopkg it steam you should get this package automatically on your machine.

bluvisnu

thanks i will try that and report the result here.

bluvisnu

I tried every setting possible, runtime, shader, proton...nothing works so I downloaded the same game I own on Steam from GOG and it works very well without Steam, I will stop using Steam then...